African-American literature

In a published speech called “The Respon- sibility of the Writer as Participant in the World Community,” Wright confirms the cen ...

570  Y Yerby, Frank Gavin (1 916 – 19 91 ) One of the most prolific African-American writers, Frank Yerby is also the first Af ...

WRIGHT, MARGARET WALKER, Nelson Algren, and Katherine Dunham, among others. Though he was only with the Chicago WPA for nine mon ...

prince who comes of age and is captured into slavery at the end of the novel. The sequel to The Dahomean, A Darkness at Ingraham ...

ences and allusion to writer from Shakespeare and Machiavelli to T. S. Eliot. We move thru rooms & down the middle of freewa ...

Young, Kevin (1970– ) Kevin Young made an impressive entrance onto the African-American literary stage near the end of the 20th ...

Present. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Im ...

576  Z Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography Audre Lorde (1982) AUDRE LORDE’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name open ...

with her fingers, leading to a determination there and then that she will learn to read. In spelling out her own artistic creati ...

passage is especially poignant, as is the section in which Lorde describes her early job at Keystone Electronics, scanning cryst ...

We Found Space.’ ” Callaloo 23, no. 1 (2000): 394– 421. Keating, AnaLouise. Women Reading Women Writ- ing: Self-Invention in Pau ...

If you took the sex out of it, you’d still have the story” (Younge). In Zane’s work there is little or no emphasis on race or ge ...

5 81 Andrews, William, ed. African American Autobiog- raphy: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice H ...

582 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Dance, Daryl Cumber, ed. From My People: Four Hundred Years of African American ...

Bibliography of Secondary Sources 583 rican Americans since 1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. Hemphill, Essex, ed. Brother to B ...

584 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Quashie, Kevin Everod, Joyce Lausch, and Keith D. Miller. New Bones: Contemporar ...

585  MAJOR WORKS BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS Allen, Jeffery Renard. Rails under My Back. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux ...

586 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature ———. Primer for Blacks. Chicago: Black Position Press, 1981. ———. Report from Pa ...

Dumas, Henry. Ark of Bones and Other Stories. Edited by Hale Chatfield and Eugene Redmond. Carbon- dale and Edwardsville: Southe ...

588 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature ———. The Lion and the Archer. New York: Hemp- hill, 1949. ———. Robert Hayden: Co ...